Event Details

General Assembly is happy to welcome digitalmusic.org's popular Music Startup Academy to Los Angeles for the first time in the Academy's two-year history.

As the trade association for the digital music industry, digitalmusic.org has developed this program to specifically help entrepreneurs, app developers, and music startups to break the barriers of entry into the music business.

The program aims to teach students how to better understand the interactions between labels and publishers, as well as the basics of product licensing and royalty reporting, content acquisition, business development, and operations.

A deeper dive into the economics of the music industry, including performance rights and understanding the various rights for master recordings and songwriting. We will also go over the various legal issues surrounding music product development.

Want Lady Gaga for your music service? A cool product isn't enough. In this segment, we'll go over the "do's and don't's" in licensing vast libraries of major content. Learn the third rails and how to manage navigating around the barriers to entry.

Once a deal is done on the legal side, technical teams need to work out content delivery and royalty reporting mechanisms. This course will discuss industry XML standards for content delivery, and royalty reporting, metadata, best practices, and troubleshooting.

3:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Opportunities in B2B Music ServicesZachary Werner, Digital Strategy, Universal Music Group

Have a service and want to work directly with record labels? Find out what record labels are looking for and the best way to sell your product to them.

Our Refund Policy: Plans change? We get it. But if you can't make it to a class/workshop, please email us at classes@generalassemb.ly at least 7 days before the scheduled event date. No refunds will be given after this timeframe.